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1. maccar+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-03 23:12:30
Alacritty is “barebones” and doesn’t have modern features like… tabs.

Wezterm fits the vim/emacs bill of “make it whatever you want”. I want something in between - iTerm2 for 2025. Stuff like secure input on macOS is something that is just nice - it behaves like a real platform app and not jsut the lowest common denominator loosely ported.

They say in the docs it’s not the best at anything, but it’s competitive in performance, features, and extensibility and that combo is a winner for me (personally)

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2. dmytro+q1[view] [source] 2025-12-03 23:23:17
>>maccar+(OP)
> Alacritty is “barebones” and doesn’t have modern features like... tabs.

It does. And the barebones complaint is literally funny (I'm mentally giggling) because Ghostty didn't have modern features like... search, literally 4 days ago https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/9756

That's why I'm staying on Alacritty on my company mac.

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3. uberco+741[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-04 09:48:24
>>dmytro+q1
Alacritty didn't even have scrollback for years.

Alacritty's search is less useful than Ghostty's implementation as it you have to exit search mode to do anything else.

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